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”Impregnable Pearl Harbor”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

Six months before Japan’s devastating assault on Pear Harbor came this article concerning how remarkable the Navy’s defensive measures were and how unlikely it would be if the installation was ever to be attacked. A large part of the article concerned how overwhelmingly Japanese the Oahu population was, and the many steps taken by the Army and Navy to keep them off-base. How terribly unimaginative of them to think that Japanese Naval Itelligence wouldn’t think to farm-out spying to an Englishman like Frederick Rutland – which they did.

Pecos Bill, Among Others
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

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The First Stars and Stripes Looks at Yank
(American Legion Monthly, 1942)

In 1942 a couple of veterans from the first go-round of
The Stars & Stripes (February 8, 1918, through June 13, 1919) visited the New York offices of Yank Magazine, after having read many of their first issues. Although wars had changed, the Army had changed soldier-journalism had changed in 24 years, the old men were impressed with Yank and had to reluctantly admit it.

“[Yank has] profited by all our old mistakes, made some gorgeous ones of their own, and profited by them – and have the guts to admit it! Which means the fighting-writing America of 1942 has actually progressed 24 years over the fighting-writing America of 1918.”

POWs at Fort Dix
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

“German prisoners of war are not coddled at the Fort Dix camp. The PWs are not mistreated, but neither is any kindness shown them. The officers supervising them are not cruel or lenient; they adhere strictly to the letter of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners.”

PM reporter Jack Shafer knew all this to have been true, because he went to Fort Dix and saw for himself.

How the ‘Stars & Stripes’ Operated
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

Written during the closing days of the paper’s existence, the reporting journalist could not emphasize enough how lousy the paper was with enlisted men serving in the most important positions. You will come away with a good amount of knowledge concerning the manner in which The Stars and Stripes crew addressed their daily duties and still made it to the presses on time. Surprising is the high number of experienced newspapermen who wrote for the paper during the paper’s short existence.

When Hollywood Wished Not to Offend Hitler
(Liberty Magazine, 1939)

When Hitler and Mussolini declared that they would no longer import Hollywood films for viewing, they inadvertently gave birth to a new kind of Hollywood – a Hollywood that would now produce movies criticizing European Fascism.

Read about Mission to Moscow (Warner Brothers, 1943) – made when Hollywood wished not to offend Stalin…

Graham Greene
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

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Leaving Hollywood
(Collier’s Magazine, 1956)

Here is a short, well illustrated article about the love shared between Grace Kelly and Prince Rainnier III:

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen two people who looked more in love. Every time I turned around to change film or grab another camera, they’d start whispering, holding hands… like any just-engaged couple. Pretty romantic.”

Dr. Jung on Germany’s Hangover
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) had much to say as to how the German people could come to terms with all the dreadful acts that were committed in their name during the previous 12 years.

“[The German] will try frantically to rehabilitate himself in the face of the world’s accusations and hate – but that is not the right way. The only right way is his unconditional acknowledgement of guilt… German penitence must come from within.”

Click here to read Jung’s thoughts on Hitler.

Tax Policy
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)

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The Gathering Storm
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

This is the Pathfinder book review for the first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against the Axis during the Second World War. Told from the unique vantage point of a British prime minister, it is also the story of one nation’s heroic role in the fight against fascist tyranny. When the other volumes in the series were completed, in 1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his effort.

Truman Decides to Defend South Korea
(Quick Magazine, 1950)

“[Truman’s] fateful decision to send U.S. planes and ships into the Korean fighting was made with advice of Representative Walter Judd (1898 – 1994: R., Minn.). Judd had been sharply critical of U.S. Far Eastern policy on grounds that it was opening the doorto Communism. The day after fighting started, State Department officials asked Judd’s advice on procedures for helping South Korea.”

Truman’s Busiest Day
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

April 14, 1945 is remembered as President Truman’s first day as Chief Executive. FDR died on the twelfth and he was sworn-in shortly after that. Just what he did with the rest of that day, much less on the thirteenth, is a mystery to me – but, let it be known here and now that his first day exercising his Presidential Authority was on the fourteenth. He met with the brass caps from the Pentagon, planned speeches, spoke on the telephone with numerous New Deal big-wigs and shook many, many hands. All involved were in agreement that it was the busiest day in his life.

Analyzing Truman
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)

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Truman’s Record in the Senate
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

“Down the line, since [Truman] voted in the Senate in 1935 for U.S. participation in the World Court, his positions on foreign relations and international policy have been consistently on the side of FDR and for the fight against fascism.”

The Biblicist
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

“Few Americans have more Bibles than Harry S Truman (he has ‘about 50’) and few quote from them with greater facility… The President seldom misses a chance to stress that only as the U.S. has faith in God can it face the future with confidence.”

The Further Education of Harry Truman
(Collier’s Magazine, 1947)

President Harry Truman (1884 – 1972) Came to the presidency following the death of FDR on April 12, 1945. He said of the post, “I wasn’t briefed for the job, I had to learn it from the ground up”; by 1947, he was no longer “Roosevelt’s stand-in, reading from a New Deal script” – he was his own man and this was becoming clearer and clearer to his critics in Washington. This article, by Frank Gervasi (1908 – 1990), covers Truman’s earliest years in the White House, and his handling of some of the hotest potatoes that landed in his lap.

What was the Truman Doctrine?

”Truman’s First Ten Days”
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

The left-of-center New York daily PM examined the liberal Bonafide’s of President Harry Truman and they liked what they saw.